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LEONARD ANDERSON, OF PAINESVILLE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO E. H. JOHNSON, OF SAME PLACE.

MACHINE FOR POINTING SKEWERS.

u SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,700, dated December 13, 1881.

Application flied March 21,1881. (No moda.) i

To all whom t may concern:

. Be it known that I, LEONARD ANDERSON, of Painesville, in the county of Lake and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful lm- 5 provements in Machines for Pointing Skewers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and useit, reference lo beinghad to the accompanying drawin gs,whieh form part of this specification.

Myinvention relates toamachineforpointing skewers; and it consists in the following parts and combination of parts, as hereinafter specitied and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a view in side elevation of my device, and Fig. 2 a plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a detached view, showing the construction and adaptation of the feeding-tingers F F.

A is a frame, of any suitable construction, dimensions, and material, for holding and ac commodating the various working parts of my device.

B is the hopper for receiving and feeding the skewer-blanks G.

D is the skewer-feeder. This feeder consists of two disks clothed with rubber, leather, or any material that will afford sufficient friction.

3o The feeders D revolve within a semicircular trough, D, of a greater diameter than that of the feeders D. rIhe skewer`blanks C, as indicated in Fig. 1, are received between the trough D and the periphery ofthe feeders D, and the 3 5 revolution of the feeder is such as to slowly carry the skewers from the hopper side of the trough to the opposite or discharging side thereof. Meanwhile the skewers are revolved upon their own axis by being rolled between the feed- 4o er and their trough. Motion is imparted to the feeding-wheels D (which are loosely placed up` on the shaft or axis of the cutters) by suitable worm-gear or other connection, D2, actuated by the pulley D3 by means of suitable belt or other 4 5 connection.

E E are revolving cutters, operating upon the principle of the revolving planin g-nnachine.

These cutters are carried upon a com mon shaft, E', driven by pulley E2.

F F are feeding-fingers. They are carried 5o by arms I", and are fixed upon a common shaft, F2, and this shaft, by any suitable means, is to be given a reciprocating or to-and-fro motion, so that a like movement is imparted to the feeding-iingers F F. At each forward movement of the feeding-ngers a skewer-blank is pushed from the feeding-hopper B between the feeders D and trough D.

As already mentioned, the feeding-wheels D are given a slow revolving motion, while the 6o cutters E have a revolving motion sufcieutly rapid for the performance of their functions.

rIhe knives upon the cutters E are so constructed and adjusted as to give a tapering or pointing cut to the projecting ends ofthe skewer-blanks, which are of sufficient length to eX- tend laterally beneath the blades of the cutters E and be by them pointed.

The operation of my machine is as follows: The hopper B is filled with skewer-blanks, and 7o the feeding-ngers F, at each forward Inovement, feed a blank between the wheels and trough D. The wheels D, revolving slowly, not only carry forward the skewer-blanl, but roll it upon its own axis. As it comes within reach ofthe cutters E each end ofthe skewerblank is pointed, after which it is discharged at the other end of the trough D.

I do not of necessity limit my invention to the employment of two feeding-wheels, D, as 8o a single one, or more than two, might be employed.

I am aware that it is not new to provide a machine for making skewers wherein the cut-- ter is constructed to sever the stick at its cen- 8 5 tral portion and point the adjacent ends, and saws for cutting off the outer ends of the sticks to produce skewers uniform in length. In such construction of machinethe sticks are supported on a vertically-adjustable concave block and 9o fed forward by means of hoops or metal bands loosely encircling the cutter-shaft and driven by belts, and hence I make no claim to such a construction and combinations of parts.

What I claim isl. The combination of the worm or equim, lent gear D2, shower-feeders D7 circular trough D', and cutters E E, substantially as and for 5 the purposes shown.

2. The combination, with the skeWer-feeder D and Circular trough D', of the hopper B, arm F, provided with a finger, F', and devices for actuating said arm to regulate the feed of the shower-sticks, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereofIhave signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subsoribing Witnesses.

Witnesses:

SEXTUS SLOAN, S. MooDEY. v

LEONARD ANDERSON. 

